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Just wanted to thank you for this post. I was wondering if I had all the right ping services in my blog.
One issue I am having is that when I had my blog hosted on wordpress sites would automatically show a trackback if I mentioned them. Now, even though I still use the wordpress platform, I am not getting trackbacks on sites like HotAir. I am not sure what happened.
Anyway. thanks for this post
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Great post. We have our own custom CMS, and I’ve been told by my SEO consultant that I need something that pings sites when a user posts a blog, news item, and even a page. Do you know if they all use XML-RPC with the method weblogUpdates.extendedPing and the same parameters?
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Hi Phillip,
Great question. To be honest I don’t know. I would dig into the wordpress code to figure out what it is doing, I do know it is using XML-RPC. One thing to think about is that if you update the same page a lot, you might need to put a governor so that there are not multiple pings for the same page, which could get you labeled as a spammer.
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Updated this post to radically reduce the number of services in the ping list and to address the question of excessive pinging.
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I’m curious, if pingomatic pings the ping server for Google Blog Search, then doesn’t that mean that the server is being pinged twice when a post is made? Could that not be a potentially risky, given how easy it is to be labelled a spammer?
Having said that, I may have stepped outside by area of expertise so I would appreciate any comments on the matter.
Reply It’s a really good question since pingomatic appears to ping Google Blog Search. If you are worried about it, I would remove google blog search from the ping list. If you are submitting your XML sitemap via Google Webmaster Tools, that’s Google’s (and Bing’s) preferred way to find you anyway. However if you are one of those bloggers that doesn’t consistently post then a ping might help get the Search Engines to come back to your site sooner. After some thought I’m going to keep it in since my level of activity is rather low (once or twice week). It’s also true that pingomatic is often down and even blocked by the search engines – so a ping to pingomatic doesn’t always mean it makes it to Google.
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Thanks for your post. I have made changes and I am using just the three ping services above. I am delighted by your fresh insight into this excessive pinging thing. Your post brought me great comfort in that area. Again, thanks and keep up the great job.
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Thanks Kathy for sharing this wonderful piece of info.
After setting up my WordPress blog I always seek for a big ping list. But never ever thought that it may be problematic my blog ranking.
You’re are extremely right. Many ping website are poor and Spam and google takes them negatively. This will effect even our website if we add them in our list. 🙂
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Did you notice if it made a difference? Are you still with the same few ping servers? Thanks.
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Personally my pages and site seem to rank better by pinging the 50 or so links I have set to be pinged than the 3 you use. I think often it all depends on the situation.
Reply Thanks for the feedback. I think it is Ok to do more than the 3 as long as you vet the additional ones you add. Some of them don’t work or treated as spammy by Google.
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An Interesting view on pinging. I like many others had been advised to avoid WP from pinging when making adjustments to a post or page as this could lead to being de-indexed by the google search engines. Also I too started out bu using a large ping list and have reduced it to only a few.
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Thank you very much for the ping list. I added it it to my WP just now.
I am wondering do you know what is the latest status of the Update Services? I know that the posts were being pinged even when they were edited. Is it still the case.
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Kathy, thank you for this well thought out and clearly delivered post. I have become a serial blogger 🙂 and love it!
But there is so much techie stuff that I don’t know and frankly don’t care to know.
However, I do realize that what you don’t know can hurt you.
I appreciate that you took the time to save me from myself.
Especially about being mindful of my post correction frequency and the
possibility of being penalized.
Yvonne Finn
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Do you still use just the 3? Any update, or the same 3?
Also, I do you use the optimizer,
and the log seems to be catching my frequent edits.
Yep, I still use just the 3. I think having a XML sitemap registered with GWMT is the best way to get Google’s attention to your new posts. I don’t use the Optimizer for the reasons I mention in the post.
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Is your recommended list still the same? I’ll use your short one unless you have updated it.
Thanks in advance.
Mark
Reply Hi Mark,
Yes, since it’s been a while since I wrote this post, I did a quick review, and I’m sticking with my short one. In fact I removed ping.blog.jp because it is no longer responding. If for some reason, Google is not crawling and indexing your site, more pinging is not going to fix it.
Thanks for asking!
Hi Kathy,
What a surprise thihihi – I was like you using a long pinglist and updated this every year.
Your new LIST is super – I totally agree. Thanks for sharing and updating it!
I’ll use it wisely – and do send updates should a #3 get added … Thihihi
Peter
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Nice information, well written article. Actually I am going to look for the over pinging factor you highlighted. Thanks for sharing.
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